![]() ![]() Only when they reach the peak of their careers do they find there's nowhere left to go but down to the Valley of the Dolls. These three beautiful women become best friends when they are young and in New York, struggling to make their names in the entertainment industry. For Anne, Neely and Jennifer, it doesn't matter as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. Dolls, red or black, capsules or tablets, washed down with vodka or swallowed straight. It is often cited as the best selling novel of all time. Never had a book been so frank about sex, drugs and show business. ![]() 'Valley of the Dolls' took the world by storm when it was first published over 50 years ago. Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann (1918-74), held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high powered industrialists and the jet set. Some spotting and time staining to endpapers and page fore edges, otherwise internally clean and tight, not price clipped (30/-), small previous owner's inscription to front pastedown, overall a reading copy only. 1 As of 2016, it has sold more than 31 million copies, 2 making it one of the all-time fictional best-selling works in publishing history. Published in 1966, the book was the biggest selling novel of its year. Edge wear, chipping, creasing and loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top quarter of back jacket torn away, corners rubbed with loss, some overall yellowing and time staining. Valley of the Dolls is the first novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann. First edition, second impression, published later the same month. ![]()
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